"Sir,

1823.

"I am happy in the opportunity of sending you the prints of the Capo di Monte and Acteon Vases. The first named is the largest Greek vase ever discovered; it is spoken of by Pausanius, and existed about two thousand years before the Christian era. The Acteon vase is curious for its high polish and preservation, and above all for the names of the principal figures being written over each in the ancient Greek character. The vases themselves belonged to the late Mr. Edwards, of Pall Mall, and now to his children. The large medal is the work of Bertaldi, of Florence-Mahomet II., the conqueror of Trebisond, Greece, and Asia; represented on the reverse as three female captives. The small medal represents Sixtus the IVth., the founder of the Vatican library.

"Should you not be in the way when the Rev. Mr. John Hutchingson leaves this place, I must beg you to give me a line acknowledging the receipt of the two medals. I beg your acceptance of the prints of the

vases.

"Mr. Butt begs me to present his compliments, together with my own, to Mrs. Thomason and yourself. "I have the honour to be, Sir,

"Your obedient servant,

Catherine Butt

"Shenthain, Stone, Staffordshire, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1843."

1823.

"Gentlemen,

"Foreign Office, London, 8th Nov., 1823.

"Being appointed one of a committee of the Royal Humane Society to adjudge as to a prize medal, to be given under the will of the late Dr. Fothergill, as by the enclosed paper, I invite you to send in to me plans or designs for the said medal, apprising you that if your plan or design be approved, you will have to execute the same, and that the same will be given every three years.

"I reman, gentlemen,

"Your very obedient servant,

James Bardine

"Messrs. Thomason and Co."

"In compliance with your esteemed request, I have the honour to transmit you a design for the medal which the Committee of the Royal Humane Society require- On the Prevention of Shipwreck, and the the Preservation of Shipwrecked Mariners.'

"The allegory of the design represents a vessel in distress discharging an anchor from a cannon (Captain Manby's invention), and Britannia in the attitude of receiving it.

"A light-house is seen as a beacon, and a life-boat puts off from the shore.

Offering you at all times my best services, I have the honour to be,

"Sir,

"Yours obediently,

"EDWARD THOMASON.

"To James Bandinel, Esq."

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his Horn of the India Bull, called the Kettee Bull, an animal rarely seen, was presented to the Author the Honorable Baber, one of the Judges of Hindoostan. The other Horn he presented to the Asiatic Society, e Length of the Horn is 2 feet 7 inches. The Girt, Ifoot 4 Inches, The Color and Polish most beautif

"I beg to acknowledge the receipt of the dollar, &c. I did intend paying you a visit prior to my leaving for Columbia. Since my return here, I have been so much occupied that I must return to London, and expect to embark on or about the 27th or 28th. I wish some further and more full explanation on the following:

"Price of dollar, you say, at 4s. 6d. If you have calculated them at that price, and dollars should be remitted, they will not bring more than about 4s. 2d.

"What difference of price will there be between the dollar, half-dollar, and quarter dollar? or what quantity of each have you calculated at the price named? I I suppose the smaller ones worth more than the larger in proportion?

"Have you calculated the expense of packing? Say what that expense would be, including carriage to the port of shipping. They will have to be packed in ironbound boxes of 1000 dollars each, or in weight not to exceed 125 lbs. I must be prepared for all those necessary statements, as I shall be bound down close. Give me any information that may suggest itself to you.

"You omitted giving me your idea as to the probable cost of a mint, or what a mint would perform to cost about £5,000 fixed in that country.

"I wish at least one die of a dollar had been made, I would have paid the expense myself; I think it would have saved trouble. The drawings I sent you were not quite correct, I could not procure a dollar anywhere in London. I send you a small gold coin of the province of Popayan. This has the proper cornucopia, and